Real-time updates and new takes on important news stories

CHART: Rescued Bangladesh Factory Worker’s Ordeal Among the Longest

A woman was rescued from the rubble of the collapsed factory building in Bangladesh on Friday after being trapped for 16 days, one of the longest periods anyone has survived in such conditions. More than 1,000 were killed in the April 24 collapse.

The seamstress, according to Syed Zain Al-Mahmood’s article, survived by scavenging food from her dead coworkers’ backpacks. In 2010, a teenage girl was pulled from rubble 15 days after the Haiti earthquake. Here are other examples.